The spirits of the just (Benjamin Milgrove)
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CPDL #27579: 
- Editor: Christopher Shaw (submitted 2012-11-12). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 81 kB Copyright: Personal
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General Information
Title: The spirits of the just
Composer: Benjamin Milgrove
Lyricist: Anonymous
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn
Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published: "12 Hymns", 1772
Description: The general congregation (sometimes divided into men and women) should sing the Air, accompanying harmonies to be taken by the choir.
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Original text and translations
English text
The spirits of the just,
Confined in bodies groan,
Till death confines the corpse to dust,
And then the conflict's done.
Jesus, who came to save
The Lamb for sinners slain,
Perfumed the chambers of the grave,
And made ev'n death our gain.
Why fear we then to trust
The place where Jesus lay?
In quiet rests our brother's dust;
And thus it seems to say:
"Forbear, my friends, to weep,
Since death has lost its sting;
Those Christians, that in Jesus sleep,
Our God will with him bring."